how much would it cost to feed a baby on the ready to feed formula for 6 months

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how much would it cost on the ready to feed formula for six months just outta intrest xx

from 0-6 or from 6-12 months?

prob one big carton a day
£2.00 a day....? x 30 x 6 = ?

I dread to think - it's bad enough using 1 1/2 tins of the powder (at £6.40 a go) a week - and that ready to feed stuff it a lot more!

well both really x

and what do you mean ready to feed formula? do you mean the cartons of ready made formula you can get?

A quick guesstimate. Average 1000mls a day over the six months = 5 200ml cartons. Around 50p each. 180 days. Around £500?

how many oz's in a big carton????

41 - 56p a carton, 7/8 oz a carton. You can store it for 24 hours. Depends how much the baby drinks I suppose.

loads!
it's not that much hassle to make it up

what's 1000mls in oz's???

snow you calcs would be 360 quid

yes

33oz QOQ. That's including loads of wastage in the early days of course.

thanks

a poorly coughing dd age 4 asleep on me, coulnt get to my other hand to calculate on my fingers!!!!

ooo - DS3 drinks more than that in a day!!! Probably closer to 40oz!

have you got a dh/dp?
get them to make up the formula.

Ah, but I'm thinking average over 6 months. Does that work? Maybe not. DS was mix fed for 4 months so I don't know exactly how much he got.

I worked out that the cartons cost exactly twice as much as the powder. So that's how much you're saving by mixing it - half, uh, whatever that is.

my 5 month old drinks 32-35 oz a day.i wouldnt like to think how many bottles i made up thinking she was hungry in the early weeks and ended up pouring down the sink.

my ds2 was on at least 40 oz a day,by the time he was 4 months i was going through 1.5-2 tins of milk a week.

dd3 wont drink ready-made.it doesnt taste very nice.i mean,neither does the powdered stuff but carton stuff is rank IMO.

I agree. And don't you think the carton stuff has a strange bluish tinge to it? God knows what they put in it. It was used for emergencies only here.

good point diva you also have to factor in the stuff that get chucked away too

Golly, that is expensive isn't it? Makes me appreciate why they give you so much more child tax credit in the first year - add to that keeping a baby in disposables for a year and they become very expensive habits!

Pretty sure you're going to need to switch to cloth nappies to compensate on the cost though.

Bouquets, I b/f and ds2 is wearing ds1's washable nappies (and wearing his outgrown clothes) so, so far, this baby has cost me nada

Breastfeeding is free though .